ANALYST: STARZ LIKELY TO REMAIN WITH NETFLIX

BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield has expressed doubt that Netflix’s deal with Starz Entertainment is as dead as each side has made it out to be. In a note to clients, Greenfield suggests that Starz executives misjudged Netflix’s need for their content. Reportedly Netflix had offered $300 million to retain the Starz package, which includes mostly […]

WILL MOVIEGOERS GO APE OVER LATEST PLANET?

How much of a rise will 20th Century Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes give the box office? Not an especially big one, according to box-office forecasters, who were notably way off in their calculations last week, when they predicted that Universal’s Cowboys & Aliens would do much more business than it did […]

NO STRINGS TIES DOWN 1ST PLACE AT BOX OFFICE (Updated)

Exit surveys at theaters over the weekend indicated that 70 percent of moviegoers who turned out to see Paramount’s No Strings Attached were women — but neither that nor the fact that it was rated R prevented the rom-com from grossing an estimated $20.3 million, at the high end of industry forecasts. The prediction was […]